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Austin Chalk Underlying Waco. 
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VII. 
Disintegrated limestone, brown to pink in 
color 45 feet. 
White limestone more or less disintegrated.. 15 feet. 
Disintegrated limestone of a clayey nature 
(yellow color), with small pieces of lime- 
stone scattered through it..... 35 feet. 
Hard hands are present where the limestone is but slightly disinte- 
grated. 
In two cisterns dug in the Austin chalk at Bosque Farm, we have the 
following sections: 
I. 
White limestone, in layers. .............. 6 feet. 
Blue limestone 15 feet. 
II. 
White limestone 
Blue limestone 
From a well on Bosque Farm, bored to a depth of 300 feet, the fol- 
lowing section of the Austin chalk was obtained: 
(1) Soil 3 feet. 
(2) White limestone . 26 feet. 
(3) Blue limestone . 5 feet. 
(4) Dark brown limestone.. 9 feet. 
(5) White limestone . . 25 feet. 
(6) Light brown limestone 14 feet. 
(7) Brown limestone 15 feet. 
(8) Gray limestone 14 feet. 
(9) Blue limestone 20 feet. 
(10) Gray limestone . 23 feet. 
Total 154 feet. 
The drill also went through 152 feet of Eagle Ford shale, and was 
still in this formation when it stopped. The hill on which the well was 
drilled is 300 feet higher than the contact of the Austin chalk and Eagle 
Ford shale at Waco, on Waco creek, just below the bridge on Eleventh 
Street. Here the contact is as distinct and as clearly defined as if it 
had been drawn with a pencil. In an artesian well bored near PadgitFs 
Park by Mr. P. J. Fishback (of which a log was kept), the following 
section is given: 
9 feet. 
12 feet.. 
